Bizarre Christmas Rituals

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Registered: 06-13-2004
Bizarre Christmas Rituals
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Mon, 12-06-2004 - 10:05pm

Just thought I would share an extremely bizarre Family Christmas Ritual...

The Christmas Weigh-In !!

For the last three years, after my family christmas dinner (there are about 45 of us at this dinner) full of pie, ham, turkey, etc etc etc my aunt sets up the scale in the kitchen and we all weigh ourselves to see if we have lost weight since the past year.

There is a BET of $150 going to the winner, who usually is one of my aunts who is not overweight at all. To me this is very bizarre. Why would normal people want to weigh themselves after the biggest gorge-a-thon of the year?

So every year I am the runner-up second-prize winner of this lovely family event! Are we disfunctional or WHAT?????

I am still hoping this will be the LAST YEAR!!! (wish me luck this year... ACH!)

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Registered: 01-05-2000
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 6:44am
Well, I do talk to just about everyone about trying to lose weight BUT I would never get on scale in front of anyone. No one except you guys know my weight. You are a brave woman. :-)Stephanie
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Registered: 08-31-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:05am
Well since you said it first....that is bizarre!
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Registered: 10-09-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:08pm

Eeee-GADS!!!

Sussie_Q